easy 3D drawing

easy 3D drawing

I'm a teacher and I'm looking for a Linux replacement to Solidworks.
I'm trying Salome via CAELinux, it looks great, but I'm wondering if I can easily start a drawing in the Solidworks way: Draw one or several simple shapes using mouse only, without caring about dimensions, and then enter dimensions. I don't want to care about coordinates.
I didn't find a way to do this, is there one?

DenisG

Re: easy 3D drawing

I'm a teacher and I'm looking for a Linux replacement to Solidworks.
I'm trying Salome via CAELinux, it looks great, but I'm wondering if I can easily start a drawing in the Solidworks way: Draw one or several simple shapes using mouse only, without caring about dimensions, and then enter dimensions. I don't want to care about coordinates.
I didn't find a way to do this, is there one?

DenisG

Hi

SALOME doesn't allow to create sketch and shape as you defined. Main reason is that module Geometry of SALOME is not a parametric model.

Regards
Yves Fricaud

Re: easy 3D drawing

I'm a teacher and I'm looking for a Linux replacement to Solidworks.
I'm trying Salome via CAELinux, it looks great, but I'm wondering if I can easily start a drawing in the Solidworks way: Draw one or several simple shapes using mouse only, without caring about dimensions, and then enter dimensions. I don't want to care about coordinates.
I didn't find a way to do this, is there one?

DenisG

Hi

SALOME doesn't allow to create sketch and shape as you defined. Main reason is that module Geometry of SALOME is not a parametric model.

Re: easy 3D drawing

But, why to choose to use a linux platform to learn cad packages? At the moment, there are just a few companies using linux as cad-platform (Pro/Engineer WF3 and Unigraphics NX), you risk to learn something that will be not so usefull for your student.
More: it seems to me that SWX can be obtained for free for educational purposes.